Umbrella man (JFK assassination)

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The umbrella man , identified by the United States Select Committee on Murder in 1978 as Louie Steven Witt , is the name given to a character who appears in the Zapruder film, and several other films and photographs, near the Stemmons Freeway sign in Dealey Plaza during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Witt is the short documentary subject of 2011, The Umbrella Man , by Errol Morris for The New York Times .

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Conspiracy

A person who is popularly nicknamed "man umbrella" has been the object of much speculation, as he is the only one who is seen carrying, and opening, the umbrella on that sunny day. He was also one of the closest observers of President John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was first hit by bullets. As Kennedy's limousine approached, the man opened and raised an umbrella high over his head, then twisted or shined an umbrella from east to west (clockwise) as the president passed. In the aftermath of the murder, "man umbrella" sits on the sidewalk next to another man before getting up and walking toward Texas School Book Depository.

Initial speculation came from murder investigators Josiah Thompson and Richard Sprague who saw an open umbrella in a series of photographs. Thompson and Sprague suggested that "umbrella man" might have acted as a signal, opened his umbrella to signal "go ahead" and then raised it to communicate "firing a second round" to other armed men. The "umbrella man" is portrayed as performing such a role in the Oliver Stone movie JFK and The X-Files episode "The Devotion of a Cigarette Smoking Man." Another theory proposed by Robert B. Cutler and authorized by Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty is that the umbrella may have been used to fire arrows with a crippling agent at Kennedy to paralyze his muscles and make him a "sitting duck" for murder.

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Identify

After an appeal to the public by the United States Select Committee on Homicide (HSCA), Louie Steven Witt advanced in 1978 and claimed to be an "umbrella man". He claims to still have an umbrella and does not know he has been the subject of controversy. He said that he carried the umbrella to simply denounce Kennedy whose father Joseph had become a supporter of the naÃ¯ve British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Waving a black umbrella, Chamberlain's trademark fashion accessory, Witt said he was protesting against the Kennedy family that met Adolf Hitler's demands before World War II. An umbrella has been used in cartoons in the 1930s to symbolize such censorship, and Chamberlain often carries an umbrella. Kennedy, who wrote the thesis on temporary relief at Harvard, Why the English Slept, may have recognized the umbrella symbolism. Black umbrellas have been used in connection with protests against the previous President; at the time of construction of the Berlin Wall, a group of schoolchildren from Bonn sent the White House an umbrella reading Chamberlain .

Testifying before HSCA, Witt said, "I think if the Guinness Book of World Records has a category for people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I will become No 1 in that position, even without a close runner-up. "

Witt meninggal pada 17 November 2014.